Let’s start with this from Reader S:
I’ll return to that in a future post, but it’s a massive percentage for really the easiest fundraising gig on earth: a special election right after Trump started breaking everything.
Lurker A sent over this piece from the Anti-Authoritarian project. It’s a bullet point list of reasons authoritarians are willing, and what can be done about it. Here’s a taste:
2. Focus on Cultural Strategy, Not Just Policy Wins
The right won by capturing meaning and identity - not just by passing laws. The left must do the same by creating a culture of solidarity, dignity, and hope.
Support independent media, storytelling, art, and cultural institutions that can compete with the right’s propaganda machine.
Reclaim language like freedom, patriotism, and security, rather than ceding them to reactionary forces.
Another reader sent in a link to the Colorado Response Network, a group that rapidly responds to ICE raids in, you guessed it, Colorado. They organize via Facebook, and have been successful in deterring ICE with their presence, according to to the reader.
Speaking of Facebook, our Facebook monitor, Gloria DryGarden, sent in a couple of things. First, here’s a video from mainandvine imagining what she would do every day if she had the power of a rich man. Gloria also sent a link to the Borowitz Report’s take on last week (a win) — he’s now on Substack.
Thanks to everyone who sent in links!
